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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!neoucom.edu!neoucom.edu!redpoll!red Newsgroups: alt.retromod,alt.business,alt.society.sovereign,biz.marketplace.international,comp.infosystems.gis,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,fj.sci.economics,k12.ed.business,misc.entrepreneurs,news.newusers.questions,rec.audio.car,rec.collecting.cards.non-sports,rec.music.early,rec.sport.soccer,sci.econ,talk.politics.libertarian Subject: Re: bincancel:14 large binaries:AR307:@@NCM Message-ID: <ARMM-Report-307.a@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us> References: <ARMM-Report-307@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:30:24 GMT From: red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us (Richard E. Depew) Followup-To: news.admin.net-abuse.misc Organization: ARMM Services, Bincancel Division Keywords: ARMM - Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation Lines: 64 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.business:55257 alt.society.sovereign:7261 biz.marketplace.international:30402 comp.infosystems.gis:37030 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17475 k12.ed.business:2819 misc.entrepreneurs:96291 news.newusers.questions:191136 rec.audio.car:58944 rec.collecting.cards.non-sports:20018 rec.music.early:20665 rec.sport.soccer:166233 sci.econ:39332 talk.politics.libertarian:79381 Binary posts do not belong in unmoderated discussion groups. I run a program that searchs for, and issues advisory cancels for, large binaries in the akr, biz, comp, misc, news, rec, and sci hierarchies. I have issued 14 advisory cancels for large binary files or parts thereof (total size 3,255,311 characters) posted to 11 different unmoderated discussion groups in the rec, news, misc, comp, biz, and sci hierarchies (with cross-posts into k12, fj, alt, and talk groups) as follows: 4 rec.sport.soccer 1 sci.econ k12.ed.business talk.politics.libertarian fj.sci.economics alt.business alt.society.sovereign 1 rec.music.early 1 rec.collecting.cards.non-sports 1 rec.audio.car 1 news.newusers.questions 1 misc.test 1 misc.entrepreneurs 1 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 1 comp.infosystems.gis 1 biz.marketplace.international The cancels in non-targeted groups are an unavoidable consequence of the way cancels work. A cross-posted article has only one Message-ID. When it is canceled from one group it is canceled from all groups. This pointer is being posted to each affected group listed above, with the exception of test groups. Follow-ups are directed to news.admin.net-abuse.misc. If you want to see exactly which file was deleted from a particular group, read the full report in news.admin.net-abuse.announce. The full report can also be found in alt.nocem.misc and alt.retromod. Look for AR307 in the subject, or, if your reader supports it, use this URL: news:ARMM-Report-307@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us The criteria used to search for this batch of large binaries were: NEWSGROUPS: Unmoderated akr, biz, comp, misc, news, rec, or sci (except for comp.binaries.apple2, comp.bugs.2bsd, and rec.games.bolo) BINARY: base64, binhex, uuencode, and xbtoa encoded files, etc. SIZE: > 100,000 characters [(size * (# of parts - .5)), if multi-part] If you must post a binary to Usenet, please post it *only* to an appropriate binaries newsgroup such as alt.binaries.misc, and do *not* crosspost it to non-binaries groups. This permits news administrators and users to decide for themselves whether to receive binary files. Please direct public feedback to news.admin.net-abuse.misc and private feedback to red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us. Thanks. Best wishes, Dick -- Richard E. Depew, Munroe Falls, OH red@redpoll.mrfs.oh.us (home) It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off'' -- Charles Dickens